Saturday, November 17, 2018

The U.N. Promotes Abortion Under "Right To Life" Heading

Leave it to the U.N. The same august body that promoted Iran
and Saudi Arabia to key posts on its Human Rights Committees, including the U.N.
Economic and Social Council’s Commission
on the Status of Women (CSW), has now vigorously defended abortion in an advanced
draft of a “general comment” on the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights.

And the language promoting abortion falls
under a “right
to life” heading. Really.

United Nation’s “general comments” are
interpretations of provisions in treaties to which it is a party. This “comment”
says, among many other things, that states should not apply criminal sanctions
against women and girls undergoing abortion or against the medical service
providers conducting the abortions, since doing so would “compel women and
girls to resort to unsafe abortion.” It also declares that states should remove
any existing barriers to abortion,
including those “caused as a result of
the exercise of conscientious objection by individual medical providers.”

Yes, the U.N. should trump
individual’s most devoutly held religious beliefs. Talk about one-world
government. The general comment, though not legally binding, will surely be
referenced by parties that enforce the treaty when ruling on specific cases.

The Human Rights Committee has
declared abortion to be a “fundamental human right,” derived from the right to life protected by its International Covenant
on Civil and Political Rights. Neither the “Human Rights Committee,” nor
any other U.N. body, has the power to create
human rights. Our rights cannot be derived
from the ICCPR. They do not come from man. If our rights come from this woman
here, or that organization there, we have no rights at all.

No one has the “right” to not be
“burdened” with a child even though they carelessly engaged in the only
activity that can create one. No one has the “right” to kill this baby, keep
that one, discard this child and accept that one, as if they were nothing more
than playing cards.

There are no such things as positive rights, though progressives
everywhere are touting them to the exclusion of actual rights. No one has the “right” to be a millionaire. No
one has the “right” to never get sick, to a $20-an-hour minimum wage or to
never have anyone disagree with them.

Negative rights
protect each and every individual from harm due to the actions of others,
namely government. Because you were born human, you have inherent, natural
rights granted by your Creator, rights that no man has the right to take from
you. This realization/declaration was a long time coming, hence countless
millions suffered at the hands of kings and despots, dictators and madmen.
Hence Nazi Germany, Kristallnacht and the Holocaust. Hence the Soviet Union,
KGB and the Gulags.

Government does not have the right to imprison
you because of the color of your skin or your religious beliefs. Government
does not have the right to tax you arbitrarily and without representation.
Government does not have the right to kill you simply because of your sexual
orientation or because it doesn’t like your slacks. Government does not have
the “right” to compel you to bake a cake for a trans-gendered couple.

As long as your actions don’t directly
harm others, you inherently possess the right to life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness. Even if you are a small person in the womb.

Daily Trivia Quiz Answer

Today's Answer: Andrew Jackson. ("Poll" got so worked up before the service he apparently had to be removed from the premises, as he was cussing long and loud).

Q) What words appear on the front of the penny, nickel, dime and quarter, alongside the likeness of presidents?

A) "Liberty" and "In God We Trust"

An Ode To Life

Appreciate all you have, as it- and you- will soon be gone. Leave no heartfelt words unspoken, no sweet gesture incomplete, no act of love undone. Love your spouse with passion and abandon, your kids with patience and understanding but also a firm guidance. Love also the truth, no matter how hard. If pursued by enough people with enough courage, it really will set us free.

And don't forget, we didn't ask to be born. We didn't create ourselves. We are not gods. There is a higher power.

Fireworks of the Mind

Write It Up

Whence Shall Come Another?

True Then, True Now

"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."- Winston Churchill

Time Well Wasted

The power lies within your hands To do with what you may But the hourglass is filled with sands Of endless yesterdays